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Yoko, Shinobu ni, eto… 🤔
עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦 ❤️ 🇮🇱
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Congrats on still rocking a laptop that’s 10 years old!
there will always be a Thinkpad nerd to do the shilling in a laptops thread, just doing my job 😎
The specs that I have now are due to the upgrades I’ve listed: the NVMe is a WD_BLUE SN570 1TB, and the RAM sticks are Patriot Memory DDR4 3200Mhz, both bought new on Amazon, and then there’s the AX200 Wi-Fi card that I bought used (you could also spend €5 more and buy it new but I didn’t see the point in doing that).
The base laptop (the one I bought for €180) has an 8th gen i5 and came with 8GB of RAM (single stick), and you can find these specs below €200 on Ebay (very good chance if you also participate in the many auctions that are there, as an example here’s one if you’re in the US: https://www.ebay.com/itm/266452790554).
What’s good about it is that if you know what you’re doing you can install only what you need and keep your system small and tidy. Also, since it’s a rolling distro, updates become available really quick and sometimes some of the updates introduce optimizations (meaning more performance) or better power consumption. And finally of course Arch has also an amazing wiki, they have hands down the best Linux documentation along with Gentoo, and they even have a page about Thinkpads: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Laptop/Lenovo
Got mine on Ebay, and you usually have to be careful like with any purchase of a used item: ask for detailed photos if you can’t judge the state of the item from the photos that are there, ask questions about things that were left out in the description, look for sellers with very good ratings and look at their reviews, see if you can return etc…
Amazon also sells refurbished ones, but so far I’ve seen the best deals on Ebay.
EDIT: important, make sure the BIOS is unlocked.
i was planning on getting a new laptop cheaply for about 500ish
What are you hoping to do with it? I got a used Thinkpad T480 that was like new for €180 and added a couple of upgrades to it (1TB NVMe, 64GB RAM, Intel AX200 Wi-Fi card) that cost me €137, meaning a total of €317, and I’m very happy with the laptop right now, it’s very responsive with Arch Linux and an i3 desktop and I think this baby will be good for many years.
Seconding Khan Academy, it’s much better than whatever paid alternative resources you might find, and what’s indeed cool is that everything there has amazing structure and you just can trust its curriculum without having to think too much about what to watch next.
Voyager is simply amazing (see !voyagerapp@lemmy.world)
For cooking, get Leanne Brown’s “Good and Cheap” book, she put the PDF for free on her website: https://www.leannebrown.com/all-about-good-and-cheap/
Also, if you have a car see if you can downgrade by going for a cheaper used car, try to find cheaper rent and look for stuff you don’t need anymore and sell it.
Good luck!
More non-tech stuff
you need to visit that community from within lemmy.world, like this:
Since I got a Remarkable 2 tablet I don’t write on paper anymore. It’s still handwriting so it’s kind of the best of both worlds.
Arch Linux is my #1, its package manager is extremely fast. Gentoo would be my #2 because the USE flags are just awesome to customize each package (basically an automated and centralized way of doing what used to be done using ./configure --enable-[...]
a long time ago). Both distos’ documentations are freaking good and the best there is on the internet right now.
Gas stoves. Disasters waiting to happen with people sometimes forgetting to turn them off.
As @KingJalopy@lemm.ee said, please try the food bank. You’ll wreck yourself if you try to survive only on pasta and tomato sauce even if it’s just for a month. Where do you live?
Elon acquiring Twitter for $44B in the first place, not taking into account the subsequent blunders. He not only overpaid too much for a social media company without even understanding it, he also wrecked Tesla’s stock price as investors saw he was clearly spending too much time on Twitter and he had to panic sell Tesla shares to fund his Twitter adventure. He easily wiped out hundreds of billions from Tesla’s market cap during that time.
Not just the Israel-Hamas war, when you criticize the CCP in that community you get banned for “orientalism”. That modlog is hilariously full of “bothsidesing” and “orientalism”, but that’s a problem with the whole instance which is leaning towards tankism.